Daily Features

By Jeffrey A Engel Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of Programming, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Texas A&M University.

It is probable that at some time in the next two weeks Europe will announce that a final deal on bananas has been achieved.

A Gardener’s Diary At this time of the year one is quite anxious about trying to get one’s hands on particularly choice plants now coming onto the market.

Hans-Werner Sinn is Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Munich, and President of the Ifo Institute.

Frankly Speaking…          By  A.A. Fenty — and corruption, carnage and cricket Okay, yes this is my annual, seasonal lament.

History this week             No 42/2009 By Winston McGowan The most satisfying accomplishment of cricketers all over the world arguably is the scoring of their first Test century.

By Tarron Khemraj Recently I had the chance to listen to a reasonably good speech made by President Jagdeo.

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA CEO, AFC“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them” – Albert Einstein Introduction: Every day, we are bombarded with advertisements on Channel 11 of progress in our country and glossy commercials of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (are played). 

In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) By Nalini Mohabir Nalini Mohabir is a PhD student at the University of Leeds, UK.

First of all, a limerick: If you have a pretty shirt, Alvro Keep jamoon far, bobo Jamoon is a stain Don’t come out again Even battery acid say so I will come back to that, but first let me say that I have always been drawn to words that capture the essence of a thing precisely, with the emphasis on “precisely”, which, by the way, is the basis for my love of our dialect: there are words there that describe things more succinctly than Standard English can.

Photos and interviews by Tiffny Rhodius, Femi Harris and Sara Bharrat This week we asked taxi drivers what they thought of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s announcement that from next August all taxis will have to be the same colour.

You gave me gifts, God-Enchanter. I give you thanks for good and ill.

Economy firewall malfunctions Today Business Page begins a short series on the Mid-year Report 2009 which the Minister of Finance is required to submit to the National Assembly under the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act, 2003.

Part1 By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Physician) How the heart works To understand heart disease, you must first know how the heart works.

The Parliament Office has notified the public that the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Bill 2008 has been committed to a Special Select Committee of the National Assembly.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as serious chess. You spend five or six hours in total concentration, at war with another mind.

Oral ailments ContinuedPeriodontitis Let me fulfil my promise to continue with the symptoms and treatment of the disease, periodontitis.

The laboratory is replacing the potting shed Over the past few weeks I have dealt with some aspect of the propagation of plants, and it’s  obvious to me that there is no part of a plant which cannot be utilized for propagation, for the simple reason that every living cell possesses the genetic information of its parents.

U.S. Visas: Quotas And Punishment Cries she with silent lips: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

History This Week –  No./2009 By Cecilia McAlmont IntroductionIn the previous article the horrors and trauma women endured under chattel slavery before 1833 were discussed – the psychological trauma of the denial of their personhood and humanity, their dual role of producers of staples to ensure the profitability of the plantation and that of reproducers i.e.